The Doppler Effect What We Built and The Legacy We Will Leave Behind
When I joined Hearables maker Doppler Labs over two years ago, I knew I was about to embark on one of the most important journeys of my career and finally get a chance to pursue my life’s mission of...
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NEW YORK CITY—On a recent Thursday evening, a crowd gathered at Galvanize, a sleek event space on the western fringes of Manhattan’s epically trendy SoHo neighbourhood. I was attending the...
View ArticleWhy The Fashion Industry Needs To Get More Artificial
The past few years of technological advances have led us on a collision course – a merging of couture and computing. The industry has reached a point where machines can leverage enormous amounts of...
View ArticleMFS2018: Connecting Innovators and Industries
While at Munich Fabric Start, I had the opportunity to conversate with various people and I noticed a common theme, the lack of communication between traditional fashion industries, and wearable...
View ArticleWakandan Technology I Wish We Already Had
Like millions of people throughout the US, I went with my family to watch the latest Marvel hero movie, ‘Black Panther’. I sat through two hours and fifteen minutes of this celebration of Black...
View ArticleReady Player One, A Balance Between A Cautionary Tale And A Celebration Of VR
Its safe to say that everyone wants a piece of Augmented Reality (AR) but what about Virtual Reality (VR)? The gold rush for AR is still going strong while VR seems to be just sitting on the shelf, but...
View ArticleLoved Clothes Last, Thanks to Artificial Intelligence
It is almost customary to mention the 1995 Hollywood blockbuster, Clueless, while writing about wardrobe management apps. The movie’s protagonist, Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) picked her outfit...
View ArticleAuR, An Immersive Experience That Will Not Hijack Your Eyes Or Your Attention
In Minority Report, do you remember when Tom Cruise’s character fast-walks through a futuristic retail store, with brands calling out to him, offering him deals based on all the data they have on him?...
View ArticleKorina Molla: “It Is The Trend of the Market to Use These New Materials and...
Every creative person, designer, artisan, startup, technology company and SME manufacturer from the fashion and consumer goods industry, actively looking for new opportunities to exploit ideas and...
View ArticleSix Wearable Gadgets for Healthy Entrepreneurs
If an entrepreneur has anything, it’s dedication. But the dedication that drives entrepreneurs to the heights of success is what can run their personal health into the ground. Those who take the risk...
View ArticleTrusTrace, Helps You Trace A Product From Fibre To Garment To Fibre
Over the last five years, global movement, Fashion Revolution has galvanised millions of shoppers to tag and ask brands #whomademyclothes. For the brands, willingly or not, it has become increasingly...
View ArticleThe Time for Fashion Schools And Tech Companies To Collaborate Is Now
If you walk into any fashion school you are most likely going to experience a time warp. By this, I mean that students are still being taught approaches and the techniques of making a garment that...
View Article2500 people. 3 months. No new clothes. 5 Takeaways From Slow Fashion Summer 2018
You might have heard of crowdfunding, and perhaps not crowdacting. Introduced by the Dutch non-profit CollAction, crowdacting is a new concept that enables people to pledge their action instead of...
View ArticleDid You Know That 23 Per Cent Of Our Clothes Are Unworn?
In September 2018, online fashion retailer Boohoo reported strong half-year profits and rapid growth at its fast fashion brands PrettyLittleThing and NastyGal. Revenue for the entire group had jumped...
View ArticleDigital Future of Fashion: 8 Startups to Watch from PI Apparel Milano 2018
If you happened to be in Milan on October 11 or 12 you would have felt the atmosphere of the fashionable future thanks to PI Apparel 2018 – the most innovative gathering of the fashion industry....
View ArticleCentre for Fashion Enterprise Explores the New ‘Age of Experience’ in Retail...
With diminishing attention spans, overwhelming amounts of content, lack of free time and the invasion of technology in every aspect of our lives, it’s no surprise that ‘experience’ is a new luxury....
View ArticleWalk The Walk With Digital Sustainability Marketing For Fashion
A recent BBC documentary by Stacey Dooley, titled ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secrets‘, had a groundswell of opinion against fast-fashion. The thing is, the ‘secrets’ revealed in the documentary have actually...
View ArticleSustainable Fashion Marketing: The Playful Approach
‘It’s chic to repeat’, is a snappy phrase that carries a semantic equal part playful and meaningful. Here’s why. It is devoid of terrifying stats about human rights and climate change, that results...
View ArticleExploring The Future of Digital Shopping And How It’s Shaping The Way We Shop
When a panel comes together to discuss the future of digital shopping in the fashion industry, it is fairly reasonable to expect to learn about the shiny new tools for that endeavour or hear more about...
View ArticleThe Fashion For Good Experience, A Simple To Understand Approach To Storytelling
Amsterdam is a city that is home to many world-famous museums, and them officially states sustainability as one of its top priorities. Known as the world’s first museum on sustainable fashion, we first...
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